YOUNG
HINES
Give
Me My Change
Protégé of renowned singer/songwriter and sometime
Raconteur, Brendan Benson, this is Young Hines’ debut solo album. Hines has in
the past been a member of a leading American Beatles tribute band, and his love
of them shows: at times he sounds uncannily like both John Lennon and George
Harrison, particularly on numbers like ‘Just Say No (Sometimes)’ and ‘Rainy
Day’.
Despite
a natural propensity towards a more acoustic sounding gentler school of
songwriting, Hines isn’t averse to taking excursions into Black Keys or White
Stripes style distorted blues territory either – ‘Hold You And Scold You’ and
the heavy ‘Can’t Explode’ being particular examples. It’s unabashedly
commercial at times, and although parts of Give
Me Back My Change are quite irritating in a way I can’t quite put my finger
on, there’s no denying this is still immensely enjoyable hook-laden indie-pop
at its most infectious.
Rich
Deakin
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